CHICO — Four Chico State University students majoring in computer science competed against 105 other computer-programming teams from around the world Saturday and Sunday in Orlando, Fla.

The Chico State team finished 61st in the entire contest and fifth among the 19 teams from the United States that took part.

The competition was the International Collegiate Programming Contest put on by the Association for Computing Machinery, which is sponsored by IBM.

The winning team was from Zhejiang University in China.

Participating teams were given five hours to try to solve 10 difficult computer-programming problems. The Zhejiang University team solved eight problems in the time allotted.

The team from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor finished second in the competition and was the only team from the United States to finish among the top 12.

Also among the top 12 were a second university from China and five universities from Russia.

The Chico State team”s adviser, professor Moaty Fayek, accompanied team members David Stolp, Katherine Gabales and Abhishek Iyer; reserve member Jennifer Coryell; and Ryan Feenstra, president of the Chico State student chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery.

The world championship was originally to be held in Egypt, but because of the political turmoil there, the venue was changed.

The Chico State team won its place in the world finals in November at the Pacific Northwest Programming Contest.